discontinuance of stars

[Anonymous]

What's with the idea of segregating the teens? They look at things differently but that is not neccesarilly bad. In my eyes there is no distinction between a teen modeler and one that has decades of experience, except experience. What would be the use of THIS forum if teens had their own forum. Who would we share our knowledge and experience with? Each other? But we are experienced right? I don't give two hoots about getting stars but if someones does, they are more than likely to have read the postings and still gained knowledge. I don't know anything about the whole star business, do you get a free loco for getting two stars or get a free subscription for getting one? I didn't think so, so what's the stink about. I'm almost 30 and if there is a teen forum made to eliminate this whole star fuss and the attempt to keep them in the amateur status than I'll take this site off of my favorites lists altogether.

Think about it. Who taught you about this hobby? Probably an older person with experience or read an article by an older person.

I'll probably get a thrashing for this reply but so what. It sounds like we should be putting our minds to educating these younger ones than possibly they would replying with sound advice and helpful ideas and suggestions.

No offense intended to anyone seriously. Let's just think about how the next generation is going to learn.

Only my opinion,
Jeremy

[EL PARRo]

One message board that I go to a lot (gamefaqs.com) has a rank system based on how often you log in. You get one "karma" for every day that you log in, and I think you can also get more karma by making topics that get a lot of responses. There are also certain boards that you can access only if you have a minimum number of karma. I think that system is much better than those based on the number of posts.

[Anonymous]

I emailed MR and asked of they could bring back Student Fare or at least have a forum for teens but of course I didn't get a reply. I just say I get this amount of posts for fun not bragging.

[Anonymous]

All for doing away with stars and number of posts. Was an illconsidered idea at the outset which has not matured into anything useful. That teens like them, if correct, is a telling argument for doing away with them.

If its a good idea to attract teens, how about creating a TAMR board for their use?

Randy

[Anonymous]

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[lupo]

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[Anonymous]

I hear you Big_Boy_4005.

[Big_Boy_4005]

I hear what you're saying, and I try to keep my postings constructive, but sometimes its fun to be silly. I like the stars, and its clear that the teens that use this site like them too. This hobby needs more young people.

Its easy to skip over topics and ignore them, I do it every time I see the word Athearn, as I have no interest in that subject being in O.

I say let them have their fun.

[michaelstevens]

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SPOILSPORTS

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[Jacktal]

Can't agree more.......

[CP5170]

I would like to see the discontinuance of stars and the reporting of the number of reponses given. Lately, it seems that too many of the users are more interested in getting their numbers up than the quality of their response. On many posts, we have to wade through the "atta boy" comments to get to the meat.

Personally, when I see that masonjar, dehusman and nfmisso have responded, I am anxious to see what they have to say because their comments are always substantive and helpful. I know that there are a lot of users who add value to the forum and I think that if we eliminate the stars, we'll see more meaningful dialogue.

Just my thoughts...Ken